The veterans magazine that published the attached column, The Home Sector, was edited by Harold Ross, who, just a few months earlier, had held that same post at The Stars & Stripes; the article was written by Alexander Woollcott - previously a journalist with that same paper. I'm sure that this was quite common in 1919, but it would seem that these two men wanted to be forthright with their readers and set straight an issue that they wrote about when they were in the employment of Uncle Sam: the Doughboys who were victorious at Chateau-Thiery and Belleau Wood did not save Paris. Just as German historians have insisted for many years, those German divisions were simply not headed for Paris.
More articles about the Battle of Chateau Thierry can be read here.
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